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Sounds fairly kingly - St Louis?
Rosemary Hayes - also going to Leeds to talk about clerical taxation
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From: "Ms Brenda M. Cook" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 6:28 PM
Subject: [M-R] Can anyone identify this saint ?
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Dear friends,
>
> I have in front of me a postcard of a tryptich: Flemish, 15th C. The
> original - whch I have seen - is in the Dobre'e collection in Nantes.
>
> The central panel shows the extended Holy Family. The central figures are
> the BVM and St Anne playing with the Christ-Child who is standing on the
> open book on St Anne's lap. Behind the BVM is a balding, middle-aged St
> Joseph and behind St Anne is a white-bearded elderly St Joachim. (Does
> this
> have any relevance to our current discussions of the BVM & St Jos ?) The
> Holy Dove hovers over the two ladies and the Child. No sign of
> God-the-Father but there are also 4 musical angels.
>
> The right-hand panel shows the female donoe with small child at her side
> and
> behind her a female saint: with long. loose hair and holding a tower. I
> guess St Barbara, probably the donor-lady's name-saint.
>
> The left hand panel has me stumped. The male donor kneels in front of a
> male
> saint. This saint is young and beardless. His halo seems to have some
> decoration in it, almost like a crown of thorns. (He is wearing a hat, but
> this is a contemporary fashion-statement, I suspect.) In his right hand he
> holds a sword, pointing upwards (the instrument of his martyrdom ??). In
> his
> left hand he holds an orb. The globe is crystal and it has a gold equator
> and a gold surmounting cross. Under his rich, fur-trimmed robe ( very much
> the 15th C fashion!) the male saint wears either a breastplate, or a very
> shiny tunic in which the cross of the orb seems to be reflected. My first
> thought was "St James the Brother of Our Lord" but I am not sure.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> The whole piece is charming and quite delightful.
>
> Brenda.
>
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